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for the udder and the body. Notice the size of the milk veins and 

 whether they are branching- and torturous or not. 



O. What is to be done with pure, sweet milk, cither by the shipper 

 or dealer, which tests 2.8 per cent of butter fat, just as it comes from 

 the cow, when the legal standard is not less than 3 per cent butter fat 

 for whole milk and 1J/2 per cent butter fat for skim milk? 



A. (By Mr. Mallory) — You cannot sell that milk to a dealer at 

 the standard price in St. Louis. Those are the rules, and they are 

 trying to abide by it. In Kansas City there is no provision along that 

 line and yet a man from Kansas City today told me that they had a 

 stronger rule than an ordinance there, from the fact that if their milk 

 went below four per cent they could not sell it. If I had cows that 

 were giving such milk as that I would certainly dispose of them. I 

 could not do anything with them. My milk is running at 6.8 per cent. 

 I do not believe there is any money in shipping milk or cream, or selling 

 it any way when you have that low a grade of milk, 



Mr. Glover — Can you not standardize it in the separator? 



I once served on a dairy and food commission, and I looked after 

 the milk, and I know many times I foimd milk not coming up to the 

 requirements of the law; but when the milk came from the animal just 

 as she gave it, we never brought suit against the dairymen. I do not 

 believe there is any law on earth that will affect a man with low grade 

 milk, if he brings it just as it came from the cow. 



Mr. Washburn — Put in two or three high testing cows, enough to 

 bring up the herd 2 per cent. As I said this morning, we had one cow 

 in our herd that averaged only 2 per cent butter fat during the entire 

 month of December, but the whole herd averaged 5.1. 



Dr. Bernays — It takes milk from 6 to 9 cows to fill an eight gallon 

 can. Our milk seldom runs below 8 per cent. Before long we hope to 

 have a law whereby it will be a punishable offense to sell milk testing 

 less than 2.5 per cent, from one state to another. 



Mr. Phipps — I would like to say in Kansas City, we have a milk 

 ordinance requiring the milk to test 3 per cent. We have dairymen 

 arrested for selling milk that tests less than 3 per cent. 



Mr. Stone — Is there a butter fat skim milk standard in Kansas City? 



Mr. Phipps — I do not know. 



Dr. Bernays — I have recommended the repeal of that whole sec- 

 tion about selling skim milk in a city. The inspector will find one can 

 labeled skim milk and another labeled whole milk. Let him sample it 

 and he can tell if there is any fraud. Whole milk is whole milk accord- 

 ing to the ordinance, and skim milk, skim milk. 



